Support for creating multiple related entities in the same step

[tttp]

Hi,

On the latest versions of civi, the expected format is to have
{"organization_name":"acme",
"api.address.create":{
"country": "es",
"is_primary":1,
"city":"madrid",
...
},
"contact_type":"organization"
...
}

I don't think we can do that with your plugin. Am I missing something? Did you have to do something similar and found a workaround?

For the generic question: how to create several entities in one step? the way I do it from node.js or class.api.php is to chain the api and put that into a big post "json"="json encoded of all the params"
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[elcapo]

Not sure about how can we solve it. For the first revision, I think it's pretty important to implement the possibility of using values from previous steps (as in #1). If, at the same time, we implement an output for the output plugin, we will be able to do almost 100% of the things we need... but using a lot of steps. :-( It will be something like "one step for every API call".

Any idea?

[tttp]

Well, it will be not good for the performance to have one call per entity
(was a big reason we did the chaining)

What about "unflatten" the params?

ie. the mapping for the output is

first_name=firstname (one of the input)
last_name=surname
api.address.create.location_type=1
api.address.create.city=city
api.address.create.country=country

and the civicrm output does the conversion into what the api needs

{first_name: xavier,
last_name: dutoit,
api.address.create{
location_type:1,
city:geneva
...
}

put that json into the "json" post param and all good

On 7 January 2014 08:42, Carlos Capote notifications@github.com wrote:

Not sure about how can we solve it. For the first revision, I think it's
pretty important to implement the possibility of using values from previous
steps (as in #1#1).
If, at the same time, we implement an output for the output plugin, we will
be able to do almost 100% of the things we need... but using a lot of
steps. :-( It will be something like "one step for every API call".

Any idea?

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[elcapo]

I'm going to try that with version 1.1. Theoretically, its possible but I haven't still tested it.

[elcapo]

I've been trying to perform the operations @tttp proposed in his last comment with the v1.1 and it looks like it's not possible to use this kind of "two API calls at once" because the parameters are being parsed, so api.address.create.location_type becomes api_address_create_location_type before the API call is made.

I've created a Gist with the transformation I wrote: https://gist.github.com/elcapo/eb7068473083ffd04054. It can be directly downloaded from:

• output-contact-and-address.ktr: https://gist.github.com/elcapo/eb7068473083ffd04054#file-output-contact-and-address-ktr.

I'm including this issue in milestone v1.2, so we'll modify the plugin to let the users use the kind of calls that @tttp suggested.